Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Contemporary English Version or CEV is a new translation of the Bible into English, published by the American Bible Society. The New Testament was published in 1991 and the entire Bible in 1995. The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books were published in 1999. It is a dynamic rather than literal translation. Its proponents maintain that it combines faithfulness to orthodox theology with accessability to modern readers. Further reading Contemporary English Version (CEV)--an AntiChrist Version (ACV)? By D. A. Waite ISBN 1568480067 Creating and Crafting the Contemporary English Version By Barclay Newman Available from the Maryland Bible Society External Links Anti CEV review by David Cloud Anti CEV review by Ian Paisley This is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.